So what was the point of Herc giving up his immortality? For such a significant decision, it never came up again. And what happened with the Amazons and the poppy juice? And since when is there a guy named Argo? And... Oh, never mind.

I haven't even watched experiment 502-Hercules yet, but I recognize the origin of of one of the riffs while scanning through them.
"Excuse me while I have a strange interlude"
Groucho Marx said "Pardon me while I have a strange interlude." in the movie Animal Crackers (One of my favorite Marx Brothers films)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omu_bePQ4LcGroucho actually riffed himself while poking fun at an experimental play from 1928 called "Strange Interlude". The play featured actors breaking character to speak their internal dialog to the audience. It was censored and banned in many cities due to it's subject matter.

I recently watched RT's Sons of Hercules, and I'd swear that the dino-dragon Jason fights in this episode is the same one Argoles fights in the Sons of Hercules. It's like they just cut away to Argoles instead of Jason.

I read that Steve Reeves didn't want to hit the actors playing the soldiers with the chains (which were made out of wood), but the director said that if the actors didn't get hit they didn't get paid. So those soldiers are really getting hit there. Not with metal chains but with wooden ones.

OK. At about 54:08 Jason says "Pardon my indiscretion," and Tom says "But that [box?] [bod?]" and then he starts making a really weird sneezing sound and Crow says horrified "What are you doing??" WHAT IS THAT ALL ABOUT? Has been on my mind for 20 years. WHAT'S GOING ON??

I'm continually amazed by the rewriting of mythology and making Hercules someone intelligent who values intelligence as much as strength. Crow's summation in Herc and the Captive Women was much more like the mythology. "He was not known for his intellect. In fact, he was dumber than a box of hammers." Then, Jason talking about NOT taking revenge for the murder of his father. No way, not in Greek mythology. When they say it's "freely-adapted", boy, do they mean it.

1. Without light pollution, you can see a lot more stars. If you're anywhere close to modern civilization, there's usually a fair amount artificial light, making it hard to see any but the brightest stars.

2. Without TV, bookstores, board games, etc., they didn't really have all that much else to do with their free time.

What I don't get is that in Hercules and the captive women Dr. F says it is the last Hercules movie. Then he pulls out the very first Hercules movie and Joel doesn't even call him out for it. Maybe if Mike had replaced him it would make sense but they were pretty clear about it in season 4.

You gotta love a father who's willing to marry you off to a murderer he just randomly found on a road one day to hide his old murder plot that got rid of his brother so your spoiled jackass of a brother could rule. And that's why in this movie, I rooted for the lion and the bottle of poison.

The score at 1:12:40 is oddly reminiscent of The Shining's music whenever something "scary" happened, like the bloody elevator scene. Sadly, we were treated to a dinosaur-thing that was easily taken out by a toothpick.

... That depends on you define love-- you know, for Iole, it got really hard to come home from Fingerhut night after night & see this big demigod sitting on the couch slamming back Leinies & watching tv...